The repeated terrorist attacks in Uttar Pradesh indicate that Jihad terror has shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir to the UP state and it is becoming a ground for Islamic terrorists. Attack on a CRPF training facility in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh where eight persons were killed and many more injured hints at the Jihad influence and also makes it clear that it is widening its scope and spreading its deadly tentacles into the state as is manifest by the establishment of tenor modules in almost all the major towns and cities outside J&K.

In the last two years there have been countless attacks on courts and religious shrines across UP suggests that the region is high on the agenda of terrorists. Uttar Pradesh is becoming the new hub of militant strikes by Islamic ultras. The fact that out of more than a dozen major attacks outside J&K, the state has been targeted at least half the number of times demonstrates this point. The ease with which the attacks were carried out demonstrates the UPA’s approach regarding terrorism. The government has remained a mute spectator fearing a Muslim backlash. The Centre’s unwillingness to apprehend the accused and crack their support base has only helped the terror outfits to build a formidable network across the state. During the last two years, the region has been targeted on nearly half a dozen occasions. There have been attacks in Ayodhya, Varanasi, Jaunpur and more recently the court serial blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. The Congress led UPA’s inability to deal with this menace has only helped it grow by leaps and bounds with the result that the state of UP today boasts of having the highest number of busted ISI backed espionage modules.

While the central intelligence officials maintain that they had passed on the intelligence outputs regarding the impending attack to the state governments, the Mayavati government has shrugged off the responsibility for the lapse in security accusing the Centre for not securing international borders and hence the spurt in terrorist activities. The political indifferences have ignored the protection of the common man. It is quite a shame that both the State and Central governments have tried to wash their hands off the ghastly affair by passing the buck instead of making joint efforts to combat the scourge of terrorism while the centre believes that its responsibility ends with issuing vague warnings, the State Government thinks its job is over with blaming. People have to pay the price and the terrorists are gaining an upper hand. By treating terrorism as another run of the mill law and order problem, the Government has indicated a completely lackadaisical approach to combat terrorism. And this is the prime reason why India gets the highest number of terrorist attacks in the world.  We need an action oriented plan and not just talks or blames on each other.